S/O: Pinkfresh feedback

Love the quality of the papers, but all the lines seem very same-same to me. Also a change of ephemera etc would be good.

love their alphabets and their flower die cuts. I find their paper to be excellent quality but challenging to work with - it doesn't always cut down well to 8.5x11 and some of the colours are ...not my favourite shades. OTH I've made some layouts that I absolutely love with their paper

Dear Pinkfresh,
Please don't stop making flair. No one else makes chipboard flair and I would miss it.

Love,
Bree the Flea

I like that their enamel dots have 7 rows of colors while others have less and PF is usually $1 less.

I agree! What I would love to see is a clean, modern asthetic with just a splash of florals, or very limited florals. Updated saying are great too, I liked a lot of Some Days and things like that. No "best day ever" or "blessed". Lots of gender neutrals would be important. Women like navy blue and forest green too!  

I agree with this. I don't have a lot of use for the heavily floral lines but I love the more linear ones. I really liked the office collection, the travel collection, and the school collection. I used a lot of those.

I would also make sure that each line had a variety of scales- a lot of their lines have very large patterns so it is hard to cut them down or layer them.
The lines tend to be very word heavy. I do like most of the sayings but it would be nice if they included more embellishments without words, too.
Also, enough with that mustard yellow- I'm over that color.

My favorite embellishments from their lines are the enamel dots, alphabets, and frames- those are very versatile. I do like the stickers but again, so many words.

I would like far fewer florals and pastels. I've had enough of them already! I wish they would go back to what I considered to be fresher lines. I love Some Days, Simply the Best, Right Now; they are my recent favorites. These lines broke out of the mold they created for themselves and I think by gauging feedback they were rewarded. Then the next line would come out and more pastels and florals.

Oldies, but goodies, Office Hours, Life Noted, Indigo Hills, Dream On, Live More, Escape the Ordinary, Boys Fort... I could go on and on. These lines are still fresh today, with great color ways and nary a floral in sight.

Along the way, Pinkfresh has continued to stand out with their quality and clean feel, but their lines used to feel unique with each release. In the past 2-3 years it is difficult to tell one line from another, with colors, patterns, and embellishments feeling very same-y.

I really want them to go back to their roots.

Yes to all of this!! The color scheme for Simply the Best was so, so good and usable.

Love:
Puffy alpha stickers (especially the smaller ones)
Puffy stickers - I would love a pack of just stars or stars, dots, asterisks, and diamonds (like the smaller bits in the Simply The Best puffy sticker sheet, but lots and lots of them!)
Enamel dots!
Chipboard flair
Chipboard frames
Cardstock stickers
Designs by Geralyn Sy
Unique sayings that aren’t “best day ever” stuff
Tags
Masculine/travel lines and color schemes - PF blues and greens are always yummy!
Variety of colors and patterns/scale
B-sides that read as solids or more simple pattern/one color
The nice paper weight/thickness
Patterned (especially multi-color stripe) cardstock backing in the embellishment and alpha packs. I learned to use that in the Holiday class
White base for papers (and not cream base)

Not a fan/don’t use:
Pink/pastel color schemes
Florals
Too many papers in one collection with icons on white background (makes it hard to mix it up or layer on a layout because there’s little range of value contrast and pattern scale)
Weird geometrics
Oversized patterns
Layered embellishments (with the wood veneer or bars)

I’m also over the mustard yellow, tomato red, and salmon pink. I’d prefer a cooler red and less brown yellow.

Pink Fresh is my favorite manufacturer and I faithfully bought entire collections until the past year and a half. The reason why? I absolutely abhor mustard yellow or a bright yellow. It seems that every collection has had some ugly hue of yellow (especially if they are designed by Cassidy Demkov). Why not a pretty pastel yellow instead Pink Fresh?! The only collection I loved and purchased multiples of was Lovely Blooms by Flora Farakas. There was a smidge of yucky yellow that I could work around or cut out. The palette was so pretty with unique patterned paper. I’d love to see more collections designed by Flora. I’d also suggest that they cut back on icons, felt, fabric or wood veneer. I typically buy 2 or 3 packs of the floral ephemera. I am really hoping they are just on a pause and this is not the end of their scrapbooking lines.

I LOVE Super Cool and am hoarding my last little bit of it. I used so much of it for DS's school stuff. The fact that the collection contained choir paper was mindboggling to me! So awesome. I still have 3 12x12 sheets, some of a 6x6 paper pad and a couple pieces of ephemera.